Even a horrible movie with Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener would be worth seeing, and “Peace, Love and Misunderstanding” is not quite horrible.

They play a mother and daughter. Keener is a Type A lawyer whose husband dumps her in the opening scene, and Fonda is her hippy-dippy mom — four decades after Woodstock, she still lives there in a house filled with sage — who is given to such pot-fueled pronouncements as, “Your spirit guide brought you here, but she can only lead you to water.”

When Keener and her teenage children, played by Elizabeth Olson and Nat Wolff, follow their spirit guide to Woodstock, that sets up a premise you can see coming all the way from New York: The uptight city folk need to loosen up among the banjos, cornstalks and bongs while inattentive Fonda needs to own the hurt she inflicted on her family while she was off having threesomes with Leonard Cohen.

There are also two or three summer romances and at least one shocking secret, but the only thing I cared about was a rare opportunity to see Fonda, possessor of my favorite voice in the history of the movies, in a leading role and the pleasure of seeing three great lead actresses (I’m also counting Olson) shoot sparks off each other in several juicy scenes.

The fortune cookie of a screenplay is not great, and I didn’t believe a second of “Peace, Love and Misunderstanding,” but the actresses are so fantastic it almost doesn’t matter.

Chris Hewitt was the Pioneer Press movie critic and then an arts and entertainment reporter from 1993 to 2017.

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